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Victoria (1837-1901) had the longest reign in British history. After a lonely, overprotected childhood, she was awakened one night to be told that her uncle, William IV, was dead, and that she, at 18, was Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers...
...controls during this spectacular maneuver was Polish-born Test Pilot Janusz Zurakowski, who had worked out the first new aerobatic stunt in 20 years.* Squat, studious-looking Pilot Zurakowski flew with the R.A.F. after escaping from a Nazi prison camp, has three Luftwaffe kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt...
Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
...John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body by taking in coeds, got its first one (of 24 now enrolled). Said 17-year-old Sue Griffith, who arrived early from Green Tree, N. Mex.: "The boys here are more studious-looking than the ones at home...
...offense, but throughout his own coaching career he has developed the system with fond attention to the scientific blocking and cross-checking perfected by Rockne, "the master coach of them all." This week Caldwell's coaching rivals, admirers and all other true 50-yard-liners can read his studious progress review, Modern Single Wing Football (Lippincott, $5). During the war years, relates Coach Caldwell, the T, "the oldest of the basic offensive formations . . . was exploding all over the place." But he "couldn't believe that T was sounding the death knell of the Single Wing." To prove that...